RE: Xtian TV: Paedophilia, snuff fantasies and puppets
August 5, 2012 at 5:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2012 at 6:34 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 5, 2012 at 4:47 pm)Annik Wrote: I don't count Ed Gein. He only killed two people, you know. He was mostly a grave-robber.
Fair point. As far as I can tell, his actions were probably made out to be even more shocking than they were because he was held to be one of the first of that type of criminal, as well as all the developmental factors that contributed to Gein's psychological makeup. All of which fascinated later generations to the point where he became the prototype 'psycho' killer.
It's a bit like Dr Crippen, whose only crime was to poison his wife Cora and bury her in his basement, and then flee to Canada with his lover Ethel Neave, a girl young and small enough to get away with being disguised as a boy. Yet despite his comparatively ordinary crime, his name became synonymous with murderers for decades onwards due to the fact that he was the first to be caught using the new-fangled wireless telegraph.
Incidentally, one of my favourite books is Diary of a Hangman, an autobiography of John Ellis who was Britain's official hangman for the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. It was he who 'did' Crippen and almost two hundred and thirty others in his career, men, women and children alike. He wasn't evil, he just took a professional attitude to his job, feeling that the least he could do for the poor unfortunate rope dancer was to carry out his duty as swiftly as possible so as not to prolong their suffering. The accounts of the final moments of some of history's more infamous characters makes for a fascinating read.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
